Today is December 2, 2013. My stats today: 10 minutes of yoga, 10 minutes lifting weights and 45 minutes of walking = 2.5 miles for a December total of 4.0 miles. My weight was 165.6 pounds.
Brad and Alexandra have been here for a week so my daily schedule was not operating as usual. They went home to Denmark on yesterday morning, leaving here at 8:30 AM , driving to O'Hare, flying to Amsterdam and then Copenhagen.
My goal today is to get caught up on my 29 gifts in 29 days. The book said to try and give the 29 gifts in 29 consecutive days but if you can't just keep going or start over. Well, I'm not starting over. However, I will get the 29 gifts goal reached but it will be more like 35 non-consecutive days. So far I have described my first 22 gifts.
Gift #23 was on Thursday, November 28, 2013. It was a gift to Toys for Tots which is sponsored by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves. When I was walking at Walmart that morning I saw the box asking for gifts to Toys for Tots. I thought why make some little tyke happy for Christmas, So I bought a little three car choo-choo-train suitable for 6 months to 3 years.
Gift #24 was on Friday, November 29, 2013. For Thanksgiving we had our fireplace going with fire logs and real wood. Carron mentioned that she used fire logs in her fireplace all the time but she was out right now. While getting some groceries I decided my 24th gift would be fire logs for Carron. I delivered them to her house on the way home.
Gift #25 was on Saturday, November 30, 2013. Ruth Ann had mentioned to me several weeks ago that she had three crockpots but all three had problems: one didn't heat correctly, one had two legs instead of three, and the third one had both problems. So my 25th gift was a new crockpot for Ruth Ann - a big black oval-shaped one.
Gift #26 was on Sunday, December 1, 2013. Unfortunately Ruth Ann went into the hospital on Friday with colitis and diverticulitis. As I write this on Monday she is still at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids. Brad and Alex left for Denmark at 8:30 AM on Sunday morning. As a result of a week long stay there was a need to wash towels and bedding and straighten up the house and get things put back into place. My 26th gift was to do the following for Ruth Ann (and myself) so she would feel no stress about the house when she comes home tomorrow (or maybe today). So I spent Sunday washing, folding, and putting away three loads of clothes, getting all the dishes washed and put away, putting all the excess turkey into 8 Ziploc quart-size bags and into the freezer, and putting everything back where it belonged.
Gift #27 was today, December 2, 2013. My 27th gift was a visit to brighten the day of my friend Galen - to help brighten it I gave him a 6-pack of Busch Light. Galen is recovering from cancer - it was diagnosed last May. It was a large mass located in his right side. Thanks to chemo he has made a remarkable recovery. His hair is growing back and he looks like a healthy man again. We had a great visit with a lot of laughs and a hug when I left. Galen was custodian at the school for over 25 years. I like Galen and he likes me - we have great time together.
I talked to Ruth Ann this morning - she sounded much better. Thanksgiving night she came down with severe lower stomach pain. She developed severe diarrhea with blood in the mix. We went to the ER on Friday afternoon and she's been in the hospital since Friday night. On Saturday morning her blood pressure had dropped to 79 over 41 but they have it back to normal now. She was also dehydrated - more later - time to go visit her.
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